Billy Graham Center Archives

Papers of C.B. (Charles Billy) Hogue - Collection 645

[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]

Brief Description: Correspondence, financial records, lists, memos, minutes, notebooks,
promotional materials, press releases, and reports which document the planning and convening of
the 1981 American Festival of Evangelism. The materials are the administrative files of C.B.
Hogue the Vice Chairman of the 1981 American Festival of Evangelism.

Restrictions: The speakers’ messages in Folder 6-1 through 6-4 may be copied for classroom
and personal use only. They may not be reproduced for sale. All other uses require written
permission from the author.

Chairman of the North American Lausanne Committee for World
Evangelism

Other significant information

Author of three
books

Loves Leaves No Choice: Life Style Evangelism

I Want my Church to Grow

The Doctrine of Salvation

Historical Background

Conference name

American Festival of Evangelism

Conference venue

Kansas City, Missouri

Conference dates

July 27-30, 1981

Conference theme

To help the leadership in local churches develop strategies to
reach their communities for Christ

Conference background

The Lausanne Committee on World Evangelization, working
with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, sponsored the
conference

Conference purpose

1. To inspire the participants to the worship of and a deeper
fellowship with God as Lord of the Harvest.

2. To motivate God’s people in commitment to evangelization
as a primary task within the totality of God’s mission to the
world.

3. To assess and communicate the progress toward the
evangelization of the United States and the needs for further
action.

4. To plan a highly visible event that will draw the attention of
American Christians to the need and priority of all-out-evangelism, and enlist the commitment of leaders in church
bodies and agencies for that purpose.

5. To pray together and to call American Christians to the need
for increased prayer for the United States and world
evangelization.

6. To promote further cooperation among all American
Christians in reaching the unchurched.

7. To instruct Christian leaders in effective strategies,
programs, and methods of church growth

Notes: All of the materials in this collection are Hogue’s administrative files of the American
Festival of Evangelism as vice chairman of the executive committee and chairman of the
program committee. The archivist retained the original folder titles but rearranged the folders
since they were received in no apparent order.

Exceptional items: Records of the executive, program, planning, and prayer committees in
Folders 1-4 through 1-13 contain agendas, correspondence, financial reports, lists of speakers,
handwritten notes, and program schedules. Other materials in these folders include a letter from
the Internal Revenue Service certifying that the AFE is a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization
(folder 1-4) , information on the 1981 Inaugural Prayer Day and a December 1980 summary
report on the AFE by Paul Benjamin (folder 1-6), media releases packets and budget (folder 1-7),
names and address of speakers (folder 1-12), and a report by Vonette Bright, dated December 7,
1981 entitled Summary of the Activities of the Executive Prayer Committee of the American
Festival of Evangelism (Folder 1-13). Minutes of executive, program and leadership reference
committees are in Folder 3-5. There are also minutes of the December 1980 executive and
planning committee meetings in folder 4-1.

Letters many with carbon copies attached are located not only in the correspondence folders
(1-15, 2-1 to 2-3) but also in the Invitation Responses folders (2-6, 2-7. 3-1 to 3-3), Workshop,
Letters/Suggestions for Leaders folder (5-1), music folder (3-7), and the Paul Benjamin folder
(1-1). The letters are mostly arranged either alphabetically or chronologically.

Biographical information and some photos (photocopies) on ninety-three speakers and potential
workshop leaders are in several folders. See the addenda for a complete list.

The collections also includes a coordinators manual for volunteers to help promote the AFE
(folder 1-14), program directory and list of seminary/workshop topics and speakers (folder 4-3),
financial reports (folder 2-5), thirty-three page report of the Operation Services Department
related to meeting facilities (folder 3-4), agendas for committee meetings, calendar of meetings,
and program guidelines (folder 3-6), registration forms, speaker’s packet, delegation packet, and
A Strategy for Registering Twenty-Thousand Participants for the American Festival of
Evangelism (folder 4-6), names and address of committee members, schedules, and flow charts
of various departments (folder 2-4).

Folder 4-5 contains brochures, program guidelines, advertising flyers and brochures, forms,
sample packet of AFE historical materials sent to American colleges and seminaries, and a paper
by Leighton Ford entitled Why and American Festival of Evangelism? Several editions of the
festival newspapers have been place in oversize folder OS 16. The July 27, 1981 issues contains
a complete program listing of all the seminars, workshops, and presentations including the name
of the speaker and a brief summary of each session.

Information on the reproducible notebook project is in Folder 4-4 while the notebooks are in
folders 6-1 to 6-4. The four notebooks contains messages by the speakers grouped by conference
themes: festival, evangelizing, discipling, and equipping. There is an index by speaker at the
front of each notebook.

Provenance

The materials in this collection were given to the Archives of the Billy Graham Center by C. B.
(Charles Billy) Hogue in August 1998 and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in June
1991.

Accession: 91-52, 98-56

August 4, 2011

Wayne D. Weber

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION - Many have photos (photocopies) of individuals

Name

Folder (“3-1" means “Box 3, Folder 1")

Alderson, Wayne T.

3-1

Allison, Grady N.

1-2, 3-1

Andes, Larry

3-1

Armstrong, Benjamin L.

3-1

Aten, Wilbur R.

3-1

Awkard, A. Russell

2-7

Bailey, William Charles

3-1

Ball, Howard A.

1-2

Benjamin, Paul

1-2

Bennett, Kenneth E.

3-1

Billheimer, Paul E.

3-1

Blowers, Russell F.

2-7

Borland Jr., W. H. (Howard)

3-1

Boyack, Kenneth

3-1

Bright, Vonette Z.

3-1

Bright, William R.

1-2

Brown, William (Bill) R.

3-1

Burrett, Kenneth Jay

2-1

Bush, Forest C.

3-1

Cedar, Paul A.

3-1

Champion, Richard Gordon

3-1

Cockerell, Robert H.

3-3

Colman, Robert E.

1-2

Conner, Ruben S.

3-1

Crowley, Mary C.

3-1

Culumber, T. Joe

3-1

Cunningham, Paul G.

2-7

Delamarter, George N.

2-7 (photo only)

Edgemon, Roy T.

3-1

Elkins, Chris D.

3-1

Engstrom, Ted W.

3-1

Fish, Roy J.

3-1

Ford, Jean

3-1

Ford, Leighton

1-2

Gerber, Vergil

3-1

Gornitzka, A. Reuben

3-1

Green, Roger O.

3-1

Griswold, Roland E.

3-1

Grubbs, James David

3-1

Hart, Alfred Carl

3-1

Held, Ronald G.

3-1

Henry, Carl F. H.

3-1

Hess, Bartlett L.

2-7

Hughes, Ray H.

3-1

Hurn, Raymond W.

3-1

Jennings, Fred S.

3-2

Johnson, M. (Mitchell) C.

3-2

Jones, Howard

3-2

Kennedy, D. James

1-2

Kern, Gene A.

5-1

Kershaw, R. Max

3-2

Kirk, Jerry R.

1-2

Klassen, Randolph J.

3-2

Kolb, Erwin J.

1-2, 3-2

Lamb, Joyce J.

3-2

Larson, Bart

3-2

Lewis, Larry L.

3-2

Lower, Nellie

2-6

Massey, James Earl

1-2

Meyer, Matthew M.

1-2

Olford, Stephen F.

3-2

Palms, Roger C.

3-2

Parrish, Preston

3-2

Pearson, John W.

3-2

Perlman, Susan

3-2

Petersen, J. Allen

3-3

Polston, Don H.

2-7

Quam, Glenn L.

2-6

Rand, Ronald R.

3-2

Reapsome, Martha G.

1-2, 3-2

Robinson, Darrell W.

2-7

Ross, David E.

5-1

Sanchez, Daniel R.

3-2

Schuller, Robert H.

1-2

Schwab, A. Wayne

3-2

Sheaffer, Daniel T.

2-7

Shumate, Charles R.

1-2, 3-2

Sollenberger, Lucille

3-2

St. Clair, Howard Barry

3-2

Stearman, Sam

2-6, 3-2

Stevey, John E.

1-2

Thomas, T. V.

1-2

Uhrich, David

3-2

Valentine, Paul W.

2-7

Wagner, C. Peter

1-2

Wellman, W. Donald

1-2

Williams, Jimmy (James) R.

3-2

Wimber, John R.

3-2

Wood, George W.

3-2

Wymore, Leonard G.

1-2, 3-2

Yamamori, Tetsunao

3-2

Yaeger, William E.

2-7

Zacharias, Ravi K.

1-2

LOCATION RECORD

Accession: 98-56

Type of material: Oversize Materials

The following items are in the OVERSIZE FILE. Request by collection number and folder
location (in parentheses).